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  • Is Apple about to launch a subscription service?

    Rumors of an iTunes subscription service have resurfaced . At first I thought that the DRM-free announcement meant a subscription service was less likely , but perhaps the opposite is true. First of all, album purchases will already be the DRM-free "premium" versions. As for individual tracks, the new...
    Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 04-12-2007

  • The Day DRM Died

    As Mike Arrington put it, April 2nd was "the day DRM died". The big news yesterday was that EMI will begin selling its entire catalog without DRM . Starting in May, EMI will start offering a new "premium" option - for $1.29 (30% more than the base $0.99), you get higher audio quality (encoded at 256kbps...
    Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 04-03-2007

  • Steve Jobs and Apple telling half-truths about DRM

    This has already been covered ad nasuem , but I thought I should mention Apple's denouncement of DRM last week. Steve Jobs summarily dismissed Apple's DRM as a result of demands from the record labels. Since Apple does not own or control any music itself, it must license the rights to distribute music...
    Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 02-13-2007

  • A look at Apple and Microsoft strategies

    I've been thinking about some of the interesting strategic decisions that Microsoft has made lately. I already discussed their curious IP licensing strategy , and their choices with Zune and Windows Media Player have me similarly baffled. In many ways, these moves have been something I expect more from...
    Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 01-01-2007

  • Podcast support in Windows Media Player 11

    There is one other issue I need to deal with before I can totally switch to Windows Media Player 11 - podcast support. Microsoft made the head-scratching decision not to include native podcast support - one area where iTunes really excelled. Someone wrote a plugin over the summer , but it doesn't work...
    Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 12-28-2006

  • dopisp adds iPod support in WMP 11

    Like most people, I would prefer to use a single media player to manage my library. I like Windows Media Player 11 more than iTunes 7 , and this is especially true since I've subscribed to the Urge subscription service . (I really wish Apple would provide a subscription-based service for the iPod). The...
    Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 12-28-2006

  • Is Apple working on an 8GB nano?

    Oh man. Apparently Apple has been buying up flash memory and some are speculating they will launch an 8GB nano soon. While I miss those extra GB dropping down from a hard-drive based iPod, I've been in love with my nano since it first arrived last September. It's an amazing little device, and I prefer...
    Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 06-08-2006

  • Apple to launch new content distribution system

    The Digitial Music weblog passes along this tidbit from ThinkSecret . Apparently, in addition to offering feature length content and expanded TV offerings, Apple will be announcing a new content delivery system in January at the annual MacWorld conference. In an effort to appease media companies wary...
    Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 12-05-2005

  • Stealing Music?

    Just thought I'd chime in on the music thread going on. Yes, downloading MP3 files is wrong, because you're consuming copyrighted material without properly compensating the owner of the copyright. We use our understanding of real property to help understand property rights and ownership of (digital)...
    Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 09-18-2003
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